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The Japanese occupied Saipan for 30 years. In this time they built towns and had a successful sugar industry. When Japan pulled out of the League of Nations in 1935 they began to fortify all of Saipan preparing for a battle in a war that had yet to begin. June 15, 1944 the battle for Saipan began and within a month, what Japan spent three decades to create, lay in rubble.

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